Camels, elephants, cheetahs and a menagerie of Ethiopian animals help emerging young readers learn to count in this charming bilingual primer in indigenous Ethiopian languages like Amharic, Tigrinya and Afaan Oromo. Charming student illustrations depict the animals, birds and spiders of East Africa in colorful detail. Side by side translations in Amharic and English support development of vocabulary and fluency. Bright, colorful illustrations of lions and monkeys and donkeys keep their interest. The Ready, Set Go! series of books by Open Hearts Big Dreams is part of a broad effort to increase literacy in indigenous Ethiopian languages. Ready Set Go Books, an Open Hearts Big Dreams Project, is focused on increasing the literacy rate in Ethiopia through giving readers books with stories in their heart languages, full of colorful illustrations with Ethiopian settings and details. Profits from book sales are used to create, print, and distribute more Ready Set Go Books to kids in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country. Ethiopia’s population is 44% children, ages 0-14 (43 million out of 97 million total). Only 5.5% of children attend pre-school or kindergarten, and the adult literacy rate is 49%. Our books are based on wise Ethiopian sayings that often rhyme in Amharic. If an adult says the first half, many children can chant the second half. Sometimes the meaning of these sayings is clear. Sometimes it has to be puzzled out and argued over. But sayings and idioms and proverbs help people express truths and beliefs in unusual ways. Since late 2017, OHBD has published over 100 unique #ReadySetGo dual language titles in four Ethiopian languages plus English and has plans to publish another 100 titles and add more languages in the coming years. New titles and/or languages are added monthly; follow our author page to get new release announcements. Open Hearts Big Dreams Fund (OHBD) is a 501(3)(c) not for profit organization that believes the chance to dream